Kingdom of Twilight by Tui T. Sutherland
Ugh. The covers changed. =_=
When I saw it on the library shelves, I was liek, “OH HEY A TUI T. SUTHERLAND BOOK. \o/” It wasn’t until I opened the book to read the blurb that I realized it was the third Avatars (NOT to be confused with Avatar:The Last Airbender) book. :|
Having two different styles for one series of book (meaning the style of the covers changed mid-series, not that the series has two sets of covers depending on the version) seems self-defeating, to me. And tbh, I hate the cover art of the third book. I thought the art of the first books was very fitting, because the books deal with ancient gods so the drawn, caricature-ish style, and key-pattern borders fitted the theme nicely. The new “modern” modernist cover is just…ugh. I really hate it, for srs. Not because I hate the whirly abstract stuff floating around a photograph of a blonde girl, but because it seems to me that Sutherland might be trying to “expand” her reader base by making use of stuff that’s popular right now (THINK REALLY HARD ABOUT THAT TITLE) at the book’s expense. I hope her writing hasn’t been affected by this, because if it has…I will just drop the book with no regret and pretend Book 2 ended the series, cliffhanger be damned.
books | Jac the Tripper | 14 March 2009 |
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By sarah, March 15, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
smart move on her behalf.
maybe you can just put a book cover on it and call it a day.
omg i remember when power rangers went magical a la harry potter and came out with mystic force/mahou sentai magiranger
By Jac the Idiot, March 15, 2009 @ 7:01 pm
haha, was that sarcastic? |D;;;
Magiranger was based more on Ursula Le Guin’s work, if I recall, what with the Chtonian themes (although I could be wrong about Le Guin, but a lot of it wasn’t Harry Potter-based). Mystic Force HP-ized it a lot, I think. (This changes depending on who you talk to, though, I guess. xD;)
By sarah, March 19, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
not sarcastic. She’s taking advantage of a good opportunity to make money without putting any effort into it. “ooh, lemme just stick one money-making word in the title… and I’m done!”
of course, it’s a bad move ’cause she’s alienating previous fans like you, but you know money makes ppl do stuff like that.
By Jac the Idiot, March 19, 2009 @ 8:45 pm
ah, good point, good point. ‘Course, it’s kinda obvious what she did; who actually falls for that? well, fans of that one, I guess. =_=;;